Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Ääntäminen
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- RP:
- IPA: /ˈlɔːjə(ɹ)/
- IPA: /ˈlɔɪ.ə(ɹ)/
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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- A professional person qualified (as by a law degree and/or bar exam) and authorized to practice law, i.e. conduct lawsuits and/or give legal advice.
- By extension, a legal layman who argues points of law.
Verbit
- (informal) To practice law.
- To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
- To make legalistic arguments.
- With "up", to acquire the services of a lawyer.
- (colloquial, criminal law) With "up", to exercise the right to ask for the presence of one's attorney.
- To barrage with questions in order to get the person to admit something, usually used in the past tense "[You've been] lawyered."
Esimerkit
- His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;.
Taivutusmuodot